SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 51 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 +57
Contract jobs citing SAP 90 73 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.68% 4.15% 4.72%
As % of the Vendors category 8.97% 9.06% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 32 77
10th Percentile £482 £405 £430
25th Percentile £532 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.34% -11.46% +2.13%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £763
90th Percentile £848 £717 £863
Central London median daily rate £613 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +16.71% -10.64% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £146.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year - -57.63% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £148.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £62.50 £147.50
% change year-on-year -5.73% -57.63% -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,003 806 945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.06% 45.85% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 495 689
10th Percentile £365 £313 £348
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year - -1.17% -2.37%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £680
90th Percentile £750 £751 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 8
10th Percentile - £22.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.75 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +59.31% -40.00%
75th Percentile £28.39 £63.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £93.11 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year -25.29% +42.53% -13.00%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.11%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.67%) SAP ERP
3 5 (5.56%) SAP HCM
4 2 (2.22%) iTrent
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (2.22%) SAP BRIM
4 2 (2.22%) SAP EWM
4 2 (2.22%) SAP GRC
4 2 (2.22%) SAP MM
4 2 (2.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (2.22%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (2.22%) SAP SD
5 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (1.11%) SAP PM
5 1 (1.11%) SAP QM
5 1 (1.11%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.44%) SuccessFactors
2 6 (6.67%) Azure
3 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.33%) AWS
4 3 (3.33%) Boomi
5 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.22%) Matillion
5 2 (2.22%) OCI
5 2 (2.22%) SaaS
5 2 (2.22%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.11%) Serverless
6 1 (1.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (3.33%) Power BI
3 2 (2.22%) SAP BW
3 2 (2.22%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.11%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.11%) GIS
4 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.11%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) ER Studio
1 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 24 (26.67%) Finance
2 23 (25.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.78%) Billing
5 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.44%) Banking
6 4 (4.44%) Law
6 4 (4.44%) Local Government
7 3 (3.33%) Legal
8 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.22%) Retail
8 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.11%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (22.22%) Architect
2 17 (18.89%) Consultant
3 14 (15.56%) SAP Consultant
4 12 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (12.22%) Analyst
6 8 (8.89%) Lead
7 7 (7.78%) SAP Manager
8 5 (5.56%) Functional Consultant
8 5 (5.56%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.56%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 4 (4.44%) Cutover Manager
9 4 (4.44%) SAP Cutover Manager
10 3 (3.33%) Integration Architect
10 3 (3.33%) Oracle Consultant
10 3 (3.33%) Report Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) SAP Architect
10 3 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
10 3 (3.33%) Transformation Analyst
11 2 (2.22%) Data Engineer
11 2 (2.22%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.33%) Middleware
2 10 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (5.56%) XML
4 4 (4.44%) JSON
4 4 (4.44%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (3.33%) OAuth
6 2 (2.22%) EDI
6 2 (2.22%) IDoc
6 2 (2.22%) JWT
6 2 (2.22%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.22%) REST
6 2 (2.22%) SAML
6 2 (2.22%) SOAP
7 1 (1.11%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.11%) JDBC
7 1 (1.11%) LDAP
7 1 (1.11%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.11%) Snowpark
7 1 (1.11%) XML Schema
7 1 (1.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.22%) FMCG
3 2 (2.22%) IoT
3 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.22%) Replication
4 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.00%) ERP
2 25 (27.78%) Migration
3 19 (21.11%) Data Migration
4 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (14.44%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
7 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 9 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 8 (8.89%) Data Modelling
8 8 (8.89%) ETL
9 7 (7.78%) Cutover Planning
9 7 (7.78%) Project Management
9 7 (7.78%) Risk Management
9 7 (7.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (6.67%) Data Governance
10 6 (6.67%) Data Mapping
10 6 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
10 6 (6.67%) Validation
11 5 (5.56%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.78%) SQL
2 3 (3.33%) ABAP
3 1 (1.11%) C#
3 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.11%) Java
3 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.33%) PMP
4 2 (2.22%) CIPD
5 1 (1.11%) CISM
5 1 (1.11%) CISSP
5 1 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) GDPR
2 5 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.56%) QA
3 3 (3.33%) GAAP
3 3 (3.33%) GRC
3 3 (3.33%) PMO
4 2 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.22%) IAG
Vendors
1 24 (26.67%) Oracle
2 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.67%) Ariba
3 6 (6.67%) Workday
4 3 (3.33%) Databricks
4 3 (3.33%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.22%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.22%) Informatica
5 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.11%) Concur
6 1 (1.11%) ESRI
6 1 (1.11%) Google
6 1 (1.11%) IFS
6 1 (1.11%) Kronos
6 1 (1.11%) OpenText
6 1 (1.11%) Palantir
6 1 (1.11%) Planon
6 1 (1.11%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.11%) Talend